Why I hate office spaces and meetings
Hello,
a couple of days ago I was called to come to Stuttgart. It was on a very short notice so I couldn't meet up with Steemians there.
It was a very sunny day, but I had to spent most of it in boring offices in boring meetings. I prefer to avoid such nonsense and get only an email with open points list. A call for common understanding after the email has been read makes sense. After that I don't to spend a whole day traveling just to search in the inbox for figures.
Office work is so not efficient and effective this days, we have this massive open spaces which are nonsense in terms of concentration and are used only by insecure managers that think so they can supervise more. Also meetings are a major waste of time. People come unprepared and speak about all other stuff. My meetings that I have to do last half as planned, not because we can't find common ground but because of efficiency if I lead them. Don't get me wrong, I like to hang out with people, but not in an office or in front of a screen.
So after my meetings have been done I did enjoy some moments of tranquillity watching over Stuttgart from the hills around.
This image made my day!
How do you see your work at the moment?
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I fully agree. In a virtualized world and with our Webex and telepresence technology we could sit anywhere, e.g. at home and perfectly work together. At least efficient decisions can be made, no need to sit together for this. For the work itself anyway it is much more efficient to not sit in a cubicle of an open space. Studies indeed have shown that open space offices increase sick leave times!
What is lacking when you w@h always is the kitchen rumors, the hallway chats, the personal stuff. Actually the only reason to come to the office regularly, to improve the team spirit.
In our company they now relocate staff from Europe to USA, well qualified and experienced staff, just so that all are co-located in the US headquarter. Of course max. 5% of the people would consider a relocation to US. So they will loose many good people because of this obsession of co-location. And the irony is that in the US-headquarter, if they have a meeting in the 4th floor, people of the 6th floor often don´t participate physically, but dial in nevertheless as it is more convenient for them!
Relocating people is the best way Ringer rid of good people. Sounds like what IBM was doing a few years ago, where they lost good staff.
OpenSpace offices need to build in the right way, with a big look to acoustic and need enough meeting rooms in different sizes around the core space.
We see many companies failing here as some stupid beancounters did the plans fort he open space office and not the people who understand this complex project.
Let me know if we need some more articles about #neuwork and all the stuff around this. I love to create a few.
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I would be interesting in those! I fortunately have an office for my own :), but no clue what will be in one year from now.
I thought I recognized those hills!
Hope that you enjoyed Stuttgart and that your meeting was not too boring :)
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I thought I recognized those hills!
Hope that you enjoyed Stuttgart and that your meeting was not too boring :)
Posted using Partiko Android
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A very good point my friend, but luckily this kind of meetings get less and less. At least in my work life.
Working together with latest collaboration tools and some simple rules for efficient meeting will safe so much time and useless travel.
Let me send you a link to my latest book about „digital teamwork“ to be able to forward some inspiration to that people.
reminds me to make a post about this book the next days
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